New Medicare cards coming in 2018

New card new number

CMS will begin mailing new insurance cards in April 2018, replacing all Medicare cards by the April 2019 congressional deadline. These new insurance cards will no longer have the members Social Security number listed, helping to prevent identity theft and safeguard taxpayer dollars. There will be a 21-month transition period where providers will be able to use either the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier or the current Health Insurance Claim Number which will further ease the transition.

My office has used Berkshire Medical Management Services for our medical billings since 1997. Before that, for a while, we did the billings in-house and it was quite complicated and time-intensive. We have been most pleased with BMMS's service as is confirmed by the fact that we have continued to utilize their services for the past 16 years. Julie Daub and her staff are efficient, courteous, knowledgeable, honest and pleasant. It has been a privilege to work with them over this period of time. They interface with patients over billing issues and I have not had any complaints from patients. I have also been impressed that they keep up to date with the many changes in coding and billing that take place on an almost monthly basis. I would recommend BMMS to any practitioner who wishes to pay more attention to his or her practice and offload the huge headaches involved in billing for services. Sincerely yours,